Global Graphics introduces PrintFlat to smooth out non-uniformity across the web

ScreenPro Version 2.0 introduces PrintFlat technology that mitigates the artifacts caused by variation within a head, between heads or wear on the head itself. It does this by being able to address every nozzle separately on any combination of head and electronics, to achieve very fine granularity.

ScreenPro can be applied to any inkjet technology and print industry workflow and can be added to presses already on the market, or incorporated into an inkjet press that’s still on the drawing board.

‘Our customers wanted a technology to address the banding that inkjet print bars commonly display,’ said Tom Mooney, ScreenPro product manager. ‘Print heads don’t have a uniform density distribution across the head resulting in visible banding. Different print heads will have different baseline densities and while these can be corrected by tweaking voltages this is time consuming and can affect the life of the heads.’

He continued: ‘PrintFlat provides a calibration that corrects for these defects providing a flat, uniform density distribution across print bars. In addition to making improvements in quality ScreenPro 2.0 provides significant performance improvements and the ability for real time screening driving data to the press at full speed.’

ScreenPro is supplied to press vendors either as a cross-platform development component or with a full branded user interface. As a development component ScreenPro integrates seamlessly into a workflow solution. Multiple ScreenPro engines can be run on the same server or offloaded onto separate computers. This parallel processing of screens leads to blistering speeds, especially with dedicated ScreenPro engines sending print data at press speed directly to the drive electronics driving individual print bars for each color.